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0 Insomnia Radio Canada Show #58 w/ A Devil’s Din, Vinyl Hero
0 Gloria Metalus – Divinity – The Immortalist, Pt. 2: Momentum EP
0 Heavy Metal Underdogs – Celestial Ruin – Pandora
It’s a intense experience reflecting a lot of passion that has gone into the making of Pandora. You’ll feel this when you take a closer ear to the guitar solos, the powerful vocals and the overall fine-tuned sound package the whole band banned on tape.
http://metalunderdogs.blogspot.ca/2016/06/cd-review-celestial-ruin-pandora-ep-2016.html
0 Merchants of Air – A Devil’s Din – Skylight (Isand Dive Records)
I simply love this album. I love to take a trip back into the glorious sounds of vintage psychedelic rock music and I would honestly suggest you do the same.
0 Loud-Stuff – NEW VIDEOS – SLUDGEHAMMER, PROJEKT F,
0 NEWS: Wacken Metal Battle Canada Crown Hamilton’s PROFANER 2016 Champions
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NEWS RELEASE
Montreal, QC – June 13, 2016
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Wacken Metal Battle Canada Crown Hamilton’s PROFANER 2016 Champions
Runner Up: Montreal’s DistortHead
Prizes from PureGrainAudio.com & Los Cabos Drumsticks
2016 Trailer Video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQcxqsxchkQ
Free Download – Vol 4. Compilation featuring over 90 bands and 7 Hours of Canadian Metal – here.
(photo credit: Dr. Light Productions)
WACKEN METAL BATTLE CANADA 2016 edition has seen over 100 bands from across the country compete for ‘One Band To Rule Them All’ to perform at the world’s largest metal fest Wacken Open Air 2016 in Wacken, Germany, which holds an attendance of over 80,000 metalheads. This past Saturday, on June 11th in Toronto, ON at The Opera House, the country’s top five bands, Vancouver’s The Mountain Man (BC Winner), Edmonton’s Tales of The Tomb (Prairie Winner), Hamilton’s Profaner and Toronto’s Pyramid Theorem (Ontario Winners) plus Montreal’s DistortHead (Quebec Winner) shredded their blood, sweat and metal for one to be crowned this year’s champion.
National Final Bands: The Mountain Man, Tales of The Tomb, Profaner, Pyramid Theorem, DistortHead (credit Cara Ashbey)
After strong performances, the judges panel of Noel Peters (Inertia Entertainment), Sarah Lutz (Metal Blade Canada), Darryl Hurs (Indie Week), Chris Gonda (PureGrainAudio.com), Tim Henderson (Bravewords.com), Andrew Epstein (Zombitrol Productions) and Glenn Fricker (Spectre Media Group) proclaimed Hamilton, ON’s PROFANER, Wacken Metal Battle Canada’s 2016 champion to join the ranks of previous national winners Vesperia (2015), MUTANK (2014) and Crimson Shadows (2013).
WMBC organizer JJ Tartaglia comments:
“After a close and epic battle our national champion that is Profaner has been yielded. We will be proud to showcase their brand of melodic death/thrash on behalf of Canadian metal to the holy fields of Wacken.”
PROFANER will now move on to perform at the international battle at Wacken Open Air taking place from August 4-6 to represent Canada among 30 other participating countries. Full details here. PROFANER will be defending Canada’s world title after Vesperia’s win last year. In the last three years of Canada’s participation, they have produced two world champions, Vesperia (2015) (video) and Crimson Shadows (2013) (video).
In addition to their win, PROFANER will receive a drummer prize pack from Los Cabos Drumsticks that includes 12 pairs of sticks of their choosing, a stick bag, a practice pad, and other Los Cabos Drumsticks swag plus automatic eligibility for endorsement (full details here). Runner up was Montreal’s DISTORTHEAD, they will be receiving a promotional package (valued at approximately $3k) from PureGrainAudio.com that includes a video interview shot and edited by PureGrainAudio, a featured contest of the band’s choosing (giveaway of signed merch, music, etc.), a free song download article that’s featured at the very top of PureGrainAudio’s Audio section for at least 1 week, a photo shoot with the band (either a live show shoot or band pics.) and one month free web banner advertisement on the site. (Full details here). Plus all participating national final bands will receive priority showcase opportunities for Indie Week Canada’s metal showcases this November, which will be presented by Wacken Metal Battle Canada.
CANADIAN FINAL – Line Up – SATURDAY, JUNE 11 @ OPERA HOUSE (735 Queen St. E.), Toronto, ON
Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1526172981010202/
Special Guest Headliner – Crimson Shadows (2013 WMBC Champions) – https://www.facebook.com/CrimsonShadowsBand/
Special Guest Headliner – Crimson Shadows (2013 WMBC Champions) – https://www.facebook.com/CrimsonShadowsBand/
Tales Of The Tomb – Edmonton, AB – (Prairie Final Winner) – https://talesofthetomb.bandcamp.com
Profaner – Hamilton, ON – (Ontario 1/2 Final Winner) – http://profanercanada.bandcamp.com
Pyramid Theorem (Toronto, ON – Ontario Final 2/2 Winner – https://pyramidtheorem.bandcamp.com
The Mountain Man – (Vancouver, BC – BC Final Winner) – https://mountainmanmetal.bandcamp.com
Distorthead – (Montreal, QC – Quebec Final Winner) – https://distortheadmetal.bandcamp.com
All 2016 Battle Rounds info can be found here.
This was WMBC’s fourth year hosting the competition across country in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Regina, London, Hamilton, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. For the last three years that Wacken Metal Battle has been held in Canada, it has produced two world champions Vesperia (2015) and Crimson Shadows (2013) to triumph at the international Wacken Metal Battle beating out over 30 other representing countries from around the globe.
Live Video @ Wacken – 2015 – Vesperia – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lwkzc4zGUY
Live Video @ Wacken – 2014 – Mutank – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQrLaG8BPL4
Live Video @ Wacken – 2013 – Crimson Shadows – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prOdgG4OwQU
About:
Wacken Metal Battle Canada is part of an international competition where over a hundred band’s from across the country battle each other for one to be selected and join over 30 other countries for an international battle of the bands at the world’s largest outdoor metal festival Wacken Open Air, which has been taking place in Wacken , Germany for the last 26 years. Oshawa’s Vesperia (2014 winners – video at Wacken), Toronto’s Crimson Shadows (2013 winners – video at Wacken) and Montreal’s Mutank (2014 winners – video at Wacken) have had that honour playing in front of thousands. The 2016 festival will be taking place from August 4-6.
How it works:
Each city will hold their qualifying rounds plus city finals from the months of January to May 2016 selecting the top band to move forward to the national finals in Toronto, ON on June 11th at Opera House with one being selected to perform at the 27th edition of Wacken Open Air taking place from August 4-6. All bands will be judged during battle rounds by respected local music industry.
The finalists will be selected as follows by province.
1 finalist from BC
1 finalist from Prairies (AB, SK, MB)
2 finalists from Ontario
1 finalist from Quebec
Rules: http://metalbattle.ca/rules.html
Wacken Metal Battle Canada Promo Video: http://youtu.be/gQcxqsxchkQ
Wacken Metal Battle 2014 Canada Finals by Ondeschocs.com: http://youtu.be/RrOGyBtqwaQ
For more info on Metal Battle Canada, please visit these links:
Official Website: http://www.metalbattle.ca
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MetalBattleCanada
Twitter: @MetalBattleCAN
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/WackenMetalBattleCAN
For more info on Wacken Open Air, please visit http://www.wacken.com
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Rehearsal Factory – http://rehearsalfactory.com/
FACTOR – http://www.factor.ca/ (“We acknowledge the financial support of Canada’s Private Radio Broadcasters”)
Pearl Drums – http://pearldrum.com/
Boonsdale Records – https://www.boonsdalerecords.com/
TicketFly – http://www.ticketfly.com/
Los Cabos Drumsticks – http://www.loscabosdrumsticks.com/
Dungeonworks – https://www.facebook.com/dungeonworksprods
The Invisible Orange – http://www.theinvisibleorange.com/
Concertworks – http://www.concertworks.ca/
Big Nate Productions – http://www.calgarymetalfest.com/
Rose Management – http://www.facebook.com/RoseManagement/
Indie Week – http://canada.indieweek.com/
Ibanez – http://www.ibanez.com/
Band-Brand – https://www.band-brand.ca/
Axe Music – https://axemusic.com/
Media Sponsors:
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Beatroute Magazine – http://www.beatroute.ca/
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Broken Neck Radio – http://www.BrokenNeckRadio.com/
Bucketlist Music Reviews – http://www.bucketlistmusicreviews.com/
Canadian Death Metal – http://www.facebook.com/CanadianDeathMetal
Canada’s Extreme Metal Radio – http://www.xtrememetalradio.ca
Chronic Aggression – http://www.facebook.com/ChronicAggressionRadio
CJLO – http://www.cjlo.com/
Crown of Viserys – http://crownofviserys.wordpress.com/
Exclaim! – http://www.exclaim.ca/
Hammer Smashed Radio – http://www.facebook.com/hammersmashedradio
Heavy Metal ICU – http://www.heavymetalicu.com
Hellbound – http://www.Hellbound.ca/
LiveVan.com – http://www.livevan.com/
Loaded Radio – http://www.loadedradio.com/
Metal As Fuck – http://metalasfuck.net
Metalheads United – http://www.metalnationradio.com/
Metal Master Kingdom – http://www.metalmasterkingdom.com/
Metal Nation Radio – http://www.metalnationradio.com/
Metal-Rules – http://www.metal-rules.com/
Moose Radio – http://www.metalmooseradio.blogspot.ca
Muzik Injection – http://www.muzikinjection.com/
Ondes Chocs – http://www.facebook.com/OndesChocs
Pure Grain Audio – http://www.puregrainaudio.com/
Quebec-Metal – http://www.quebec-metal-archives.blogspot.ca/
Scene Magazine – http://www.thescenemagazine.ca/
Zombitrol – http://zombitrol.com/
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0 Times And Colonist – Scene and Heard: Fort McMurray rockers Sentimental Gentlemen
0 NEWS: ProgArchives Premiere Album Stream ‘Skylight’ For Psychedelic Stoner Rock A DEVIL’S DIN
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NEWS RELEASE
Montreal, QC – June 10, 2016
Album Promo Request here.
For fans of Ghost, Syd Barrett/Floyd, Psych-era Beatles, Early Sabbath,
70’s prog: Yes, King Crimson, etc, QOTSA, Tool, My Bloody Valentine
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ProgArchives Premiere Album Stream ‘Skylight’ For Psychedelic Stoner Rock A DEVIL’S DIN
New Album ‘Skylight’ Out June 17th
L-R – Dominique Salameh – Drums, Vocals, David Lines – Keys, Guitar, Vocals, Thomas Chollet (R) Bass, Guitar, Vocals
Photo Credit: Renaud Kasma
Music Video – ‘Skylight’- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9lX4H7hMc0
A DEVIL’S DIN is made up of 3 musicians born in the Old World who traveled across the ocean to find each other in Montreal, QC where they were drawn together by a mutual love of melodic, innovative, inventive and daring rock / metal tinged music. Fusing the colourful sounds of Syd Barrett’s Pink Floyd & the psychedelic-era Beatles with intensity of classic power bands like Sabbath, The Who, and Led Zeppelin, as well as the boundary-pushing adventure of Yes, Gentle Giant and King Crimson, A DEVIL’S DIN is an uncommon and uncompromising voice in modern music.
Debuting their album ‘One Day All This Will Be Yours’ in 2011, it has been a trippy five years since fans have heard new material from the psychedelic rockers. Hitting the studio in 2014, they now return with their 2016 follow up ‘Skylight’ set for official release on June 17th to take fans on a new trip.
Teaming up with ProgArchives.com, the band is now premiering the full album stream at the following link below.
Vocalist / guitarist David Lines comments on the album:
“Essentially this album is really a tribute to the psychedelic experience. I drew on my own personal involvement with certain consciousness-expanding substances to create a set of songs that would take the listener on a journey, both lyrically and musically. Within these 9 songs there exists a certain contrast between the hallucinatory and the heavy. Obviously we also owe a lot of this album’s influence to another era, not just by sound and texture, but by the spirit of adventure, daring and experimentation that was prevalent then and bring all of that to the world today, right now.”
Bassist Tom G. Stout also adds “Even though we are inspired by LSD trips, we still like to hit hard, and enjoy getting a little aggressive. You have to balance out the light with the darkness, because otherwise you’re not being real.”
Full Album Stream can be heard at the following link: http://www.progarchives.com/video.asp?id=6282
Album pre-order available at www.ADevilsDin.com.
1) Skylight (3:14) [Music Video]
2) Phaze Ulysses (3:29)
3) Never The Same Thing (5:20)
4) Bow To Thee, Absurde (3:43)
5) I Don’t Know (7:06)
6) Nature Of The Beast (4:23)
7) For A While (5:38)
8) Eye’s Pie (4:05)
9) Prequel (5:20)
Album Length: 42:16
About:
A Devil’s Din is made up of 3 musicians born in the Old World who traveled across the ocean to find each other in Montreal, drawn together by a mutual love of melodic, innovative, inventive and daring rock music. Fusing the colourful sounds of Syd Barrett’s Pink Floyd & the psychedelic-era Beatles with intensity of classic power bands like Sabbath, The Who, and Led Zeppelin, as well as the boundary-pushing adventure of Yes, Gentle Giant and King Crimson, A Devil’s Din is an uncommon and uncompromising voice in modern music.
In 2008, UK-born stalwart Montreal-based multi-instrumentalist and session musician David Lines decided he needed to form a musical outfit that would suit his own particular psychedelically-induced musical visions, and thus A Devil’s Din was born. While still working as a musical “gun-for-hire” around town, he continued to develop the songs and sound for A Devil’s Din–which he considers an Art Project not to be tainted by commercial desires–recording their first album One Day All This Will Be Yours between 2009 and 2010, and releasing it on his own label Island Dive Records in 2011.
Though the musicians on that record were excellent, it wasn’t until Lyonnais bassist and disciple of the Holy Trinity of Rickenbacker Bass (John Entwistle, Chris Squire and Geddy Lee) Thomas Chollet entered the picture, along with drummer Dom Salameh (whose being born in Abu Dhabi did not at all prevent him from becoming an ardent Keith Moon devotee) that the sound really began to take shape. The synergy of the three took the music to another level, as witnessed at their intense and energetic live shows and has been made manifest on the new A Devil’s Din album SKYLIGHT that is set for release on June 17th, 2016.
A Devil’s Din continues to travel further afield in the world of psychedelic and progressive rock music, transforming listeners’ minds where ever they go.
Their first European tour will take place in September and their albums are available through various retailers on line and through their website www.ADevilsDin.com.
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0 Revelstoke Review – Fort McMurray’s Sentimental Gentlemen play through fire
0 Out Now! SLUDGEHAMMER Pound The Fury With Debut Album ‘The Fallen Sun’
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NEWS RELEASE
Montreal, QC – June 10, 2016
Album Promo Request here.
For fans of Revocation, Mastodon, Lamb Of God, Pantera, Opeth
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Out Now! SLUDGEHAMMER Pound The Fury With Debut Album ‘The Fallen Sun’
Upcoming Show Dates:
July 9 – Sudbury, ON – The Asylum – info
L-R – Chris Szarota – Vocals, Jeff Wilson – Guitars, Tyler Williams – Guitars, Dan Ayers – Bass/Vocals, Fernando Villalobos- Drums
Credit: Hayden John Wolf
Music Video – Carrion Eater – Watch here.
Featuring eleven fist pounding tracks of dynamic vocal performances from lead vocalist Chris Szarota and bassist Dan Ayers, along with a showcase of mind bending guitar solos, heavy riffs and blistering drumming fury. Toronto, ON’sSLUDGEHAMMER are proud to unleash their debut full length album ‘The Fallen Sun’ officially out now as of June 10th. The debut album is the follow up their 2014 EP ‘Organ Harvester’ and was self-produced by the band plus mixed by guitarist Tyler Williams along with mastering done by world renowned producer & engineer Lasse Lammert (Gloryhammer, Alestorm, Teramaze) at LSD Studio in Germany.
“We’re extremely happy to announce that “The Fallen Sun” is available today through bandcamp. Included are 9 brand new tracks that will get any metalhead’s blood pumping. We had some fun in the studio and decided to record 2 bonus tracks that are also included on the album. We busted our asses with this one in the winter and we’re super excited with how it turned out. Enjoy at high volumes please! Support the underground!” comments guitarist Jeff Wilson.
A full album stream of ‘The Fallen Sun’ can be heard at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2dmlDY6eK0
The album is available digitally and on CD at the following bandcamp link https://sludgehammermusic.bandcamp.com.
1. Demons From The Woodwork (4:02)
2. Intestines Entwined (5:02)
3. The Black Abyss (6:29)
4. Ectogenesis (4:34)
5. Carrion Eater (5:56)
6. Consuming Afterbirth (4:34)
7. Carnivorous Forest (5:08)
8. Utopian (5:45)
9. Revolting (4:46)
10. Organ Harvester (4:51)
11. Casualties (4:34)
Album Length: 55:48
For more info, please visit https://www.facebook.com/sludgehammermusic
About:
Sludgehammer is a five piece Canadian metal band formed in 2013. The band began with guitarist Jeff Wilson and drummer Fernando Villalobos jamming together, which quickly resulted in writing songs and searching for a full line up. Their search led to vocalist Chris Szarota, who possessed an astonishing vocal ferocity and bassist and vocalist Dan Ayers, who passed the audition as a bassist and also revealed a golden voice. Thus, the first incarnation of Sludgehammer was formed.
The four members worked hard over the next few months to put together a demo, which was released at the band’s first gig on November 22nd, 2013. The demo was well received even though it was completely self-recorded and the gig offers kept on coming, along with new fans.
With the success of the demo, the band knew that it was time to step things up and hired producer Christian Anderson for their 2014 release, ‘Organ Harvester’. During the writing sessions, the band decided that Chris and Dan should share vocal duties for this record, as Dan’s voice had been absent from the demo. The dual vocals proved to be a force to be reckoned with and on August 11th, 2014 ‘Organ Harvester’ was released to rave reviews.
‘Organ Harvester’ gained both new fans and better shows, gathering serious momentum and solid name among the metal community. However by 2015, after playing many gigs with the ‘Organ Harvester’ material it became very obvious that the fans were hungry for more. The band began writing more songs for the next release and kept playing gigs, which led them to guitarist Tyler Williams. Tyler was working as a sound man at the Atria in Oshawa, ON where Sludgehammer was playing, and after their performance, Tyler approached the band. They set up a jam and in July 2015, Tyler Williams joined Sludgehammer.
The new five piece line up produced a much fuller sound as Jeff and Tyler began working together. The old songs were given new life and badass new material was being written for their next release, titled ‘The Fallen Sun’. The new songs featured dynamic vocal performances from Dan and Chris, mind bending guitar solos, heavy riffs and blistering drumming. As the songs started to pile up, Sludgehammer discussed recording a full length album. Tyler suggested that they record at his studio, Monolithic Productions. The band set up shop there and are now ready to unleash ‘The Fallen Sun’ for release on June 10, 2016.
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